Physical Inactivity and Depression: The Gloomy Dual with Rising Costs in a Large-Scale Emergency

Roberto Codella^{1

2}, Andrea Chirico³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy.
² Department of Endocrinology, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, IRCCS MultiMedica, 20138 Milan, Italy.
³ Department of Psychology of Development and Socialization Processes, "Sapienza"University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.

Editorial

Roberto Codella et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023.

. 2023 Jan 16;20(2):1603.

doi: 10.3390/ijerph20021603.

Roberto Codella^{1

2}, Andrea Chirico³

¹ Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy.
² Department of Endocrinology, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, IRCCS MultiMedica, 20138 Milan, Italy.
³ Department of Psychology of Development and Socialization Processes, "Sapienza"University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.

Abstract

At the end of October of 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) released "the Global status report on physical activity 2022" [...].

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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